Proposal: A common infrastructure for Farstream in libpurple that could be reused by calling, file transfers and desktop sharing.

[Niklas Andersson]

Thanks for your comment Jorge!

We will put together a design proposal, and let your senior developers
review it. We have one of Pidgin's "Crazy Patch Writers" in our core team,
so I am sure we will come up with an interesting solution here. ;-) I had a
look at the AUTHORS list for current and active developers.

Best regards,
Niklas



2014-04-24 18:04 GMT+02:00 Jorge Villaseñor <salinasv at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Niklas Andersson <
> niklas.andersson at openforce.se> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  We are working on the Lync-support in SIPE-plugin for Pidgin, and we
>> would need to add some functionality in libpurple. We would like to hear if
>> anyone has any objections as to how we think this could best be implemented.
>>
>
> Nice, I would love to see that plugin working and be able to replace lync
> in my work laptop.
>
>
>>  We think what we want to do is being able to use Farstream (and that
>> means also libnice) in different contexts than only voice calls. Some
>> internal libpurple API that creates a pipeline and user can specify whether
>> he wants an RTP conference for voice call or only raw stream, whether to
>> enable ICE etc.
>>
>>  Libpurple gives him some handles that he can use to read and write data.
>> Then he'll connect a camera and microphone, or expose the data stream to
>> external RDP application, depending on the actual use case.
>>
>>  What we want is being able to use Farstream and ICE for different kinds
>> of data transfer than just calling, like file transfer or desktop sharing -
>> we'd like to be able for example to use ICE and RTP encryption in Farstream
>> to establish a connection and receive a file with libpurple.
>>
>> Any objections, or additional thoughts on this suggestion? We would like
>> to first assemble a proposed design you could comment on, then we build it
>> and provide the project with the patches.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Niklas
>>
>>
> I am not familiar with the Farstream code so don't take my comments as
> authoritative. That said, I think it is a good idea to have a common API
> for the kind of functionality that Farstream offers so we can use.
>
> I think the best idea would be to post the proposed design so our most
> active and senior developers can review and give some feedback.
>
> I am looking forward to see all this functionality implemented on pidgin.
>
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